Biology 1151 EXTRA CREDIT

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Chapter	1	Introduction: Themes in the Study of Life
Chapter	2	The Chemical Context of Life Scientists prove how geckos stick, unlock secrets to making artificial gecko glue EurekAlert 8/26/02
Chapter	3	Water and the Fitness of the Environment How lizards walk on water BBC News 11/24/04
Chapter	4	Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life Fava Beans, Levodopa, and Parkinson's Disease Kathrynne Holden
Chapter	5	The Structure and Function of Macromolecules The Benefits And Risks Of Honey Consumption ArticlesBase 10/25/06 How to Use Glycogen Loading to Avoid Getting Fat or Flat Ori Hofmekler History of starching fabric OldandInteresting 7/21/10 State bans trans fats Los Angeles Times 7/26/08
Chapter	6	A Tour of the Cell
Chapter	7	Membrane Structure and Function Reverse Osmosis Moves Forward. Environmental Health Perspectives Jan 2005 New Risks for Nexium and Other Proton Pump Inhibitors Wall Street Journal 5/11/10 Cramps Backpacker Sept 04
Chapter	8	An Introduction to Metabolism Enzyme Cleaners Eliminate Cat Urine Odor ArticleCity 8/27/05 The use of enzymes in detergents London South Bank University 12/20/04
Chapter	9	Cellular Respiration An Introduction to Probiotics National Institutes of Health Aug 2008 Cellulosic ethanol output could explode Reuters 1/9/09
Chapter	10	Photosynthesis Spinach Power Adds Muscle to Batteries New York Times 11/11/04 Carotenoids: The Anti-Aging Antioxidants Antioxidants for Health and Longevity 2009 A Prayerbook's Secret: Archimedes Lies Beneath NPR 7/27/06 Algae: Biofuel Of The Future? ScienceDaily 8/19/08 Flower power makes tropics cooler, wetter University of Chicago 6/16/10
Chapter	11	Cell Communication Nobel prize for work that led to Viagra discovery Independent News 10/13/98 Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors Richard E. Klabunde, PhD 2/06/10
Chapter	12	The Cell Cycle Proto-Oncogenes and Normal Cell Growth National Cancer Institute 09/01/06 Brain cell regeneration sniffed out in adult humans New Scientist 2/15/07 Ghost heart has a tiny beat Nature News 1/13/08
Chapter	13	Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles Are Males Genetically Doomed? Futurist Mar/Apr 05 The XX Brain and the XY Brain Psychiatric Times Aug 05 Seedless Watermelon University of Arkansas 8/29/03
Chapter	14	Mendel and the Gene Idea
Chapter	15	The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance The Effect of Female Hormone Fluctuations on the Incidence of Trisomy in Humans FGCU 98 X-inactivation profile Nature 3/17/05
Chapter	16	The Molecular Basis of Inheritance Thermostable DNA Polymerases Colorado State University 12/27/99 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Telomeres Scientific American 12/5/09 Hype, hope, and reality: telomere length, telomerase, and aging Generations Spring 00 Telomerase's New Talent Science Now 8/17/05
Chapter	17	From Gene to Protein The Sea Change That's Challenging Biology's Central Dogma Discover Magazine 11/3/09
Chapter	18	Regulation of Gene Expression
Chapter	19	Viruses Hunting Fossil Viruses in Human DNA New York Times 1/11/10 RNA virus replication strategies University of South Carolina 4/26/10 Hunting Fossil Viruses in Human DNA New York Times 1/11/10 Endogenous retroviruses Retrovirology 10/3/06
Chapter	20	Biotechnology Ear today, gone tomorrow? USA Today 6/19/03 Mosquito with glowing gonads to help battle malaria Science News 10/10/05 Dolly Was Lucky Science News 01 Cloners create world's first copy-cat NewScientist 2/15/2002
Chapter	21	Genomes and Their Evolution Spot Your Genes - An Overview Of The Microarray Science Creative Quarterly August 04
Chapter	22	Descent with Modification Did Darwin get it wrong? Searching for the ancestor of Darwin's finches On Science 2005 Ancient Walking Whales National Geographic News 9/19/01
Chapter	23	The Evolution of Populations Looks Matter Science News 10/1/05
Chapter	24	The Origin of Species
Chapter	25	The History of Life on Earth Nanodiamond Find Supports Comet Extinction Theory National Geographic News 1/5/09
Chapter	26	Phylogeny and The Tree of Life Redrafting the Tree of Life Science Now 9/8/04
Chapter	27	Bacteria and Archaea Row over ancient bacteria BBC News Online 6/7/01 NZ flatulence tax outrages farmers BBC News 6/20/03 Cow Power Could Generate Electricity For Millions ScienceDaily 7/25/08 Sheep bacteria widen diet of cattle Science News 6/6/98 Beyond Botox Time 5/19/03
Chapter	28	Protists Unraveling the secrets of red tide MIT news 8/30/07
Chapter	29	Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land
Chapter	30	Plant Diversity II: The Evolution of Seed Plants Can This Fruit Be Saved? Popular Science 06/19/05
Chapter	31	Fungi Same-sex fungi can mate The Scientist 4/26/05 Mycorrhizae, Voles, Owls, Trees and Man Daniel B. Wheeler 97 The Magic of Mycorrhizal Fungi Mother Earth News Jun/Jul 03
Chapter	32	An Introduction to Animal Diversity
Chapter	33	Invertebrates How Box Jellyfish Avoid Banging Into Things ScienceDaily 4/2/07 Ligula intestinalis a tapeworm contraceptive Biologist Dec 02 The humble leech's medical magic BBC News Online 7/2/04 Leech rides the tunnel of love New Scientist 2/11/95 Gullible male fireflies supply 'femmes fatales' with a lifesaving chemical Cornell U. Sep 1, 97
Chapter	34	Vertebrates Is it true turtles breathe through their butts? The Straight Dope 11/16/01 Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found National Geographic 10/1/09


Bio1151 supplementary material	Updated: Dec 10, 2011.	Peter Chen